The new year has not been too exciting for me. A bit of a holding action.
There was this bit of symbolism:
Trump golf club in the Bronx officially renamed ‘Bally’s Links’ on same day ex-president’s fraud trial concludes
The article noted:
As his legal issues started piling up, Trump entered into a deal this past September to sell the 20-year lease on the Ferry Point golf course to Bally’s. It’s unclear how much money Trump may have netted from the deal.
On hand:
Other elected officials in attendance included Bronx Councilwoman Kristy Marmorato, a newly-elected Republican who has ties to several prominent Trump supporters.
Councilwoman Marmorato (member of the "common sense" caucus) is my member. She was the one Republican who had an upset against a sitting member (one term) for a variety of reasons,* including the dubious NIMBY variety. She retweeted (#BXStrong) a tweet by the Bronx Borough President: "We are ready to chart a new course."
I guess so. I doubt many (I wasn't) were aware of the golf course before. Ferry Point is rather isolated. Still, I am glad to cleanse its name.
The campaign-related financial charges arising out of Manhattan are currently as "also ran" as a golf course in the Bronx. I continue to think that the charges are appropriate and an important part of the effort to gain accountability.
Other civil and criminal cases can both be more important and not the whole story. We need to remove him and his lack of accountability (to use a term applied to segregation) "root and branch."
It's a long and tiresome process. Each victory is to be celebrated.
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* Democrats have about 90% of the City Council seats. A Republican represented this area in the days of yore -- decades ago -- but it is still split something like 60/40.
That's a somewhat thin Democratic majority. And, of course, only a small fraction of people voted in the off-year election.
So, a first-term Democrat being upset is not too surprising, if still upsetting.
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